Here’s a study that purports to indicate that people get more religious over time: Belief in God is highest among older people and increases with age, perhaps due to the growing realization that death is coming closer, University of Chicago … Continue reading →
My new article, “Branding Retro Romney,” is up at PJ. It’s about the perils of casting Mitt Romney in the “Mad Men” role, as the Obama administration has been wont to do. You can comment there or here, or better … Continue reading →
I haven’t written much about the story of the partying Secret Service agents and the prostitutes, because what is there to say? It’s obvious that something went very, very wrong in either the Secret Service recruitment process, training process, vetting … Continue reading →
It continues. Obama pointed out to an audience at a community college in Ohio that, ““I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.” The jokes come to mine (“no, you were born with a furry paw in your … Continue reading →
…had a friend who maintained that conservatives have no sense of humor (present company excluded, of course). I insisted he was wrong. And here’s the proof. And then, of course, you knew that this had to come: And then there’s … Continue reading →
It’s come to this: dueling unshaggy dog stories. So, is it worse to put a dog in a crate on the top of a car, or to have eaten dog as a child? I love dogs, but my answer would … Continue reading →
In election years, whenever I hear a host of possible candidates for VP saying they have no interest in the slot, I think of this completely and totally and irredeemably non-PC song. So, sue me:
Continue reading →According to researchers, the answer is: only for some people, perhaps even the minority. I don’t know. To me, these experiments have a flawed design: Exercise may change your desire to eat, two recent studies show, by altering how certain … Continue reading →
…get out of New England. A random warm day here and there is typical. But this spring we’ve been having sustained warm weather. Not just warm either, but warm/hot and sunny and relatively dry. I keep encountering people who automatically … Continue reading →
Or do you just think you do? Reading about the recent John Derbyshire flap started a train of thought for me that led to memories of the Boston school busing crisis of the 70s. I started to research the subject, … Continue reading →
Girls just want to have fun. And so do boys. In Colombia. And Italy. And then again in Colombia (hmmm, is there something about the water?) And now let’s segue into something a lot more fun: Ah, the 80s! Oh, … Continue reading →
…is still delusional: Rather tried making his case in a 2007 lawsuit against his former bosses, but it was thrown out of court two years later. Nonetheless, he remains convinced that he did nothing wrong. “I believed at the time … Continue reading →